Injuries ‘More Consistent’ with ‘Homocidal Strangulation’

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A pathologist with decades of experience, Jeffrey Epstein The post-mortem said the disgraced financier’s injuries in death were “more consistent” with “homicidal strangulation” rather than hanging, and claimed requests for further investigation at the time were “overridden” to force the official verdict that he had killed himself.

Epstein was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell in August 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. New York’s chief medical officer at the time, Dr. Barbara SampsonHe ruled that the death was suicide by hanging.

Dr. Michael BadenParticipated in the autopsy as an observer on behalf of Epstein’s estate, said Telegram on friday Following the release of new documents by the Ministry of Justice, it was stated that the case “requires” further investigation.

“In my opinion, his death was most likely due to the pressure of asphyxiation rather than hanging.”

“Given all the information currently available, further investigation into the cause and manner of death is required,” he said.

Dr. Baden did not perform the autopsy, but said he and the medical examiner initially agreed “more information was needed to determine the cause and manner of death.” He stated that his findings at the time were “inconclusive.”

In the corrected version of the report later published by the Ministry of Justice, the “manner of death” is listed as “pending” and the suicide and murder boxes are left blank.

According to official findings, Epstein had three fractures in his neck. Dr. Baden said that in the fifty years he has studied prisoner deaths, he has never witnessed such injuries in a person who committed suicide by hanging.

“Even if there is one fracture, we have to investigate the possibility of murder. Two would definitely require a thorough investigation,” he told the newspaper. “The findings in the textbooks never see these breaks, and neither do I.”

“That was my view at the time, and I still stand by that view. The autopsy findings are much more consistent with crushing injury caused by homicidal strangulation than with injury caused by hanging by suicide.”

It was later determined that the noose made of an orange sheet collected at the scene was not used in Epstein’s death, according to the official report. Dr. Baden said he noticed this during the autopsy and was concerned at the time that “the noose didn’t match the stitching.” [injury]”.

“It wasn’t smooth as a sheet, the marks [on Epstein’s neck] “A different type of material would be needed,” he said.

Dr Baden also criticized the handling of the crime scene, saying critical evidence was lost due to errors made in the handling of Epstein’s body.

“[They] “He moved the body, the guards refused to say how the body was found and he was taken to the infirmary,” he said, adding that it was a “highly unusual” move.

Dr. Crucially, Baden says, the time of Epstein’s death is “lost”; He said this evidence could help definitively rule out whether his death was a homicide.

federal authorities well-groomed There is no evidence that Epstein was murdered.

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